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The Valkyrie comes from Kratos Defense & Security Solutions as part of the USAF's Low Cost Attritable Strike Demonstrator<\/a> (LCASD) program. The 30-foot uncrewed aircraft weighs 2,500 pounds unfueled and can carry up to 1,200 total pounds of ordnance. The XQ-58 is built as a stealthy escort aircraft to fly in support of F-22 and F-35 during combat missions, though the USAF sees the aircraft filling a variety of roles by tailoring its instruments and weapons to each mission. Those could includes surveillance and resupply actions, in addition to swarming enemy aircraft in active combat.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Kratos successfully operated the XQ-58 during a three-hour demonstration at Elgin Air Force Base. \u201cAACO [the Autonomous Air Combat Operations team] has taken a multi-pronged approach to uncrewed flight testing of machine learning Artificial Intelligence and has met operational experimentation objectives by using a combination of high-performance computing, modeling and simulation, and hardware in the loop testing to train an AI agent to safely fly the XQ-58 uncrewed aircraft,\u201d Dr. Terry Wilson, AACO program manager, said in a press statement at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very strange feeling,\u201d USAF test pilot Major Ross Elder told the New York Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m flying off the wing of something that\u2019s making its own decisions. And it\u2019s not a human brain.\u201d The USAF has been quick to point out that the drones are to remain firmly under the command of human pilots and commanders.<\/p>\n

The Air Force took heat in June when Colonel Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton "misspoke" at a press conference<\/a> and suggested that an AI could potentially be induced to turn on its operator, though the DoD dismissed that possibility as a "hypothetical thought exercise" rather than "simulation."<\/p>\n

"Any Air Force drone [will be] designed to allow commanders and operators to exercise appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force," a Pentagon spokeswoman told the NYT<\/em>. Congress will need to pass the DoD's budget for the next fiscal year before construction efforts can begin. The XQ-58 program will require an initial outlay of $3.3 billion in 2024 if approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"